Example sentences of "to which [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anthropologists from centres of learning in New Guinea or the Congo were to turn the tables on us and publish studies of the behaviour patterns found among the English-speaking peoples of Great Britain and the United States , one phenomenon to which they would surely pay special attention would be the cult of Child Psychology . |
| 2 | In this prologue we discuss some of the questions which few beginners seem to have the courage to ask and yet to which they would surely like some kind of answer . |
| 3 | They do n't experience the same problems socially or finding cultural events to which they can really relate . |
| 4 | Senior officers applaud a world of ‘ real work ’ , to which they can never return , and implicitly deny the world of managerial power to which they now belong . |
| 5 | This is the major challenge facing adult educators today , the extent to which they can actively assist this process . |
| 6 | At one extreme is the structured interview in which interviewers use a schedule to which they must strictly adhere for all respondents . |
| 7 | He found instead the only possible protuberance to which they could safely have anchored their rope . |
| 8 | The king and his judges were already acting on the assumption that all ecclesiastical endowments within the realm were originally held by and from the crown , to which they should therefore revert if and when a church failed of its purpose . |
| 9 | But with one exception ( to which we shall soon return ) he does not ask such questions about the Romans . |
| 10 | Woods has outlined some of the constraints that appear to induce survival-based patterns of teaching in the secondary school system — the raising of the school-leaving age ( to which we would now add growing youth unemployment ) , which encourages staying-on among those not otherwise especially enamoured of their school experience ; the persistence and extension of 16+ examinations against which teachers ' own success will be judged ( more of this later ) ; continuing high levels of class size and teacher-pupil ratios that make individualized treatment and small-group work difficult ; and declining levels of resources , which make experimentation and adjustment of learning tasks to individual needs problematic and leave teachers in the position of having to rely on their own personal resources for managing the class . |
| 11 | But they had no place in public life , and we hear nothing about them in the Historia Novorum , which is concerned with events to which we must now turn . |
| 12 | Even linear operators are too general for quantum mechanics for a reason to which we must now turn . |
| 13 | This issue is , however , symptomatic of a deeper problem of explanation ; one to which we can now turn . |
| 14 | They express a wide range of emotions and feelings to which we can readily relate : expectantly waiting for their master or mistress to return home , display of affectionate greetings , or excitement when it comes time to go out for a walk or prepare their food . |
| 15 | He argues that all other forms of therapy are simply tranquillizers , helping people to adapt rather than change , or else to find an addiction like meditation or relaxation that offers temporary relief to which we will always need to return . |
| 16 | Spring , when the swelling buds indicate movement and rising sap , is quite soon enough to direct their energies by pruning — and that is the area to which we will now direct our energies ! |
| 17 | These attitudes were reflected in the arrangements for famine relief in Tsaritsyn guberniia , to which we will now turn , since our attention has been directed so far on Saratov and Samara gubernii to the north of it . |
| 18 | This restriction on consent is designed for the protection of the young , to which we will now turn . |
| 19 | Here lies a central dispute throughout the social sciences , and it is one to which we will often revert . |
| 20 | On the other hand , as Acheson said in his memoirs , there are limits on the extent to which one may successfully coerce an ally . |
| 21 | By pre-adjunct he means adjectives in prenominal attributive position ; by characterisation he means something like inherent or permanent ( to which one should perhaps add some cautious and flexible condition such as " in the circumstances " ) . |
| 22 | If this is correct , it may be asked why it is necessary to deal with the established , nominate torts at all , to which one can only respond that until the limits of the general tort are clearly established plaintiffs are likely to rely upon as many causes of action as they can , even though from our point of view it is untidy to have two or more torts rather than one . |
| 23 | And No. 6 displays both the breath-taking pianism we have now come to expect with a compositional skill to which one can only take one 's hat off . |
| 24 | The Crown argued that , in the same way a deliberate cross-check to the back of the neck might exceed the implied consent to risk of injury in a hockey game , the known presence of HIV is so inherently dangerous that sex with someone who is HIV positive extends beyond the norm of conduct to which one can validly consent . |
| 25 | Note that the inflection occurring with the transposed lexical item has remained in its grammatically correct position , rather than moving with the base item to which it would normally have been attached . |
| 26 | I did n't realise at the time the extent to which it would actually alter my life . |
| 27 | In his inaugural address to ministers earlier that day the Czechoslovak President , Vaclav Havel , had urged the CSCE to create " a smaller organ similar to that of the UN Security Council , to which it could also give some executive powers " . |
| 28 | Menlo Park , California-based Cisco Systems Inc wo n't be for too much longer : it has signed a lease agreement for a 46-acre site in northern San Jose , to which it will eventually move its headquarters . |
| 29 | It was not surprising that the initial source of inspiration was the breakdown of his first serious relationship , a subject to which he would later return with regularity . |
| 30 | His pursuit of moral ends did not justify his reckless disregard for truth , and his malice destroyed the privilege to which he would otherwise have been entitled . |